Clinical Services Nurse (RN), Wound Ostomy

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Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. With 388 beds it is the second largest of Duke Health's four hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services.

Position Summary

The Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse Clinician (WOC NC) provide leadership in the care of patients with stomas, draining wounds, or incontinence, throughout the organization. This includes the utilization of clinical expertise to provide preoperative and postoperative care, counseling, and teaching to patients 0-99 years of age in need of wound, ostomy, and / or continence management. S / he has primary responsibility for educating nurses to ensure knowledge and competency in basic wound, ostomy, and continence management; and works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team in a variety of specialties in planning and coordinating the care. The WOCN Nurse Clinician is an integral part of multiple teams, as a clinician, educator, consultant, and leader.

General Description of the Job Class

Independently plan and provide professional nursing care for patients in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures. Provide nursing services to patients and families in accordance with the scope of the RN as defined by the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Nurses hired into this limited benefited classification will commit to work a minimum number of hours in a designated inpatient nursing department. Compensation is a flat rate.

Duties and Responsibilities of this Level

• Plan and provide professional nursing care for patients in accordance with physician orders and

established policies and procedures (Direct Care)

urinary or stool diversion in accordance with physician / nursing orders and established policies and

procedures

requiring continence management or other specialized urologic interventions (such as clean intermittent

self-catheterization or continuous bladder irrigation)

defined patient and system outcomes

solving after discharge from the hospital

supplies in an effort to provide quality, cost-effective care

to the alterations in body image and life style

appropriate to the patient's developmental level, health literacy level, learning needs, readiness to

learn, and cultural values and beliefs

educational forums and opportunities to address critical learning needs and skills

multidisciplinary team

culturally competent care, and clinical excellence

community in areas of wound, ostomy, and continence management strategies

teambuilding, and quality monitoring

mutual respect, leadership, ethical decision-making, critical thinking, continuous learning and problemsolving

skills

practices and innovations in care delivery

improvement designed to effect efficiency of operations

evaluation studies, and / or clinical research

outcomes

process standards such as plans of care, protocols, and guidelines

Required Qualifications at this Level

Education

Work requires graduation from an accredited Bachelors Degree in Nursing program.

Experience

2 years of appropriate clinical experience required

Degrees, Licensure, and / or Certification

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

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